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PHOTOGRAPHER

August Sander

1876 - 1964

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August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Sander has received more than 237,242 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). August Sander is the 24th most popular photographer (down from 17th in 2019), the 1,499th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,237th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, August Sander ranks 24 out of 105Before him are Brassaï, Wilhelm von Gloeden, André Kertész, Gunter Sachs, Josef Koudelka, and Richard Avedon. After him are Elliott Erwitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Roger Fenton, Peter Lindbergh, Irving Penn, and Lewis Hine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, August Sander ranks 48Before him are Paula Modersohn-Becker, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ziya Gökalp, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, A. L. Kroeber, and Ivan Bilibin. After him are Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Tomáš Baťa, Anna de Noailles, Fevzi Çakmak, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, and William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Among people deceased in 1964, August Sander ranks 41Before him are Paulino Alcántara, Peter Lorre, Heinrich Neuhaus, Alan Ladd, Mikhail Larionov, and J. B. S. Haldane. After him are Werner Kempf, Sergey Biryuzov, Hinrich Lohse, Harpo Marx, Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, and Pedro Petrone.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Sander ranks 1,499 out of 6,142Before him are Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835), Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808), Peter von Cornelius (1784), Marita Koch (1957), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783), and Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (1097). After him are Leo Frobenius (1873), Heiner Müller (1929), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Rudi Dutschke (1940), and Heinrich Füger (1751).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, August Sander ranks 5Before him are Helmut Newton (1920), Heinrich Hoffmann (1885), Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), and Gunter Sachs (1932). After him are Guillermo Kahlo (1871), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Gisèle Freund (1908), Karl Blossfeldt (1865), Erich Salomon (1886), Andreas Gursky (1955), and Grete Stern (1904).